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CCE’s Game of Logging Helps Communities Step Up Storm Response
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Training sessions held locally by CCE Hamilton equips community members with essential skills—such as safe chainsaw use, precise notching, and storm-specific techniques—to clear obstacles efficiently and safely. Violent storms can leave trees tangled in power lines, blocking roads and trails. Getting downed trees cleared quickly is crucial to helping New York state communities recover. Nowhere…
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Outreach Supports Black Rural Landowners in Northeast
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Black land owners account for just ~1% of private Northeast forestland. For Sydney Antonio, a love of forests took root during childhood summers visiting upstate New York, where she and her cousins explored family-owned property covered by red oak, white ash, hard maple and other trees. Today, she and her husband, Evon Antonio, sustainably…
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Anticipating the Next Forest: Ecology and Management for Sustaining Forests
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Consider a long-term time frame to think about private forests specifically and broadly; how they used to look, how they have changed, and visualize what future private forests will provide to future owners. By Peter Smallidge and Gary Goff Periodically, maple producers and woodlot owners should pause and consider their woods, both their sugarbush and…
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Agroforestry Webinar Series Will Showcase New Research, Techniques and More
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Agroforestry describes a wide range of practices that integrate trees, forests, and agricultural production. These systems preserve and enhance woodland and tree landscapes and are an important solution to climate change and in developing healthy farm economics. Agroforestry is rooted in both indigenous knowledge from around the world and in the work of numerous individuals…
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Clearing a Woodland Understory
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Question: I was visiting a friend’s woodlot last fall. They had logged much of the ash due to Emerald Ash borer and expanded those openings into patches to allow for replanting with walnut. The understory was mostly buckthorn, ironwood, hornbeam and other scrubby species. They cleared the understory, in anticipation of planting, by either scraping…
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Avoid a Golden-Goose Approach to Forestry
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Smart woodlot stewardship makes sense — and a whole lot of dollars — for you and your family. What do you call a livestock farmer who spends decades improving the genetics of their herd, then abruptly sells all the best animals to start a new herd from scraggly, unproven stock? Crazy, perhaps, or foolish at…
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Chainsaw Safety, Part 5: Tree Felling
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Rich Taber, CCE Chenango In the previous four installments of this series on chainsaw operation we have looked at some of the myriad rules for safe and efficient chainsaw operation. We have looked at the protective gear that is needed by an operator, the safety considerations with the use of the chainsaw itself, and some…
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Working with Little Reverse Osmosis Units for Syrup Production
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One of the biggest drawbacks of making maple syrup for a back yarder or small maple producer is the time it takes to boil the sap into syrup. The idea of using a small reverse osmosis unit to assist with the syrup making is very interesting to many small maple producers. There are many little…
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Strategies to Control American Beech and Other Forest Species
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American beech and many other native and non-native woody plants can dominate a woodland, exclude or limit the regeneration of desired plant species, and limit the biodiversity of the site. In high abundance, these species can complicate access for maple producers. Often these interfering species gain dominance because of selective deer browsing of desired plant…
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Strategies to Control Undesirable and Interfering Vegetation in Your Forest
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On most wooded properties, the owner will recognize the presence of at least a few undesired plants species. In some cases, these plants become sufficiently abundant and interfere with the owner’s objectives. Interference might include the development of a beech or fern understory that impedes oak or pine regeneration; hardwoods that interfere with the establishment…
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